The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 26)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 26)

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19
disciple of Muhammad 'Abduh, tried to restore confidence
in Islam by presenting certain practical steps to revive
the Caliphate, the new elite which emerged after the war
was not the least interested in the re-establishment of an
Islamic State.
In the second place, the struggle to achieve complete
independence and to build viable political and social
structures rendered the emergence of a new ideology, more
thorough-going than that of the pre-War generation,
indispensable. The leadership of the nationalist movement
which assumed power under the tutelage of the mandatory
powers after the war sought in vain to relay the liberal
tradition of the West and its economic systems to the Arab
world through the medium of nationalism. The manifold
problems of social and economic change rendered the
establishment of liberal democracy unfeasible.
Insofar as the political traditions of the West were
alien to the Arabs, it was unrealistic to expect liberalism
to function in the Arab world. For centuries the Arabs
have lived under authoritarian governments. There was a
wide elite - mass gap both in power and attitudes .?> it
goes without saying that the Arabs were not yet ready to
accept the political innovations and institutions of the
West because they were inconsistent with their established
cultural patterns.
25 Elie Salem, “Emerging Government in the Arab World"
Orbis, VI (Spring, 1962), p. 104.
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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

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1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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